Material color

[Bob Moore]

I installed a roof with the surface material Roof standing seam 16". This look fine but I wanted a different color, so I went to the material menu and made a copy of the Roof standing seam 16", remamed it and change the color to what I wanted. I then edited the roof appling the new material. When I looked at it in 3d it's the same grey color of the original. What did I do wrong.

[Anonymous]

i've had the same problem. more than likely, the standing seam has a texture applied to it. you have to open photoshop, find the texture, rename it, change the color in photoshop and then it should work for you.

[Bob Moore]

Do you mean open the application Adobe Photoshop?

[Anonymous]

sorry. yes. do you have photoshop? there might be something else that works, but this is what i use? so, find the texture, change the color and then under options, attribute settings, materials, you have to create a new materials using that new colored texture.

[TomWaltz]

marta wrote:
sorry. yes. do you have photoshop? there might be something else that works, but this is what i use? so, find the texture, change the color and then under options, attribute settings, materials, you have to create a new materials using that new colored texture.

Photoshop Elements works quite well for simple texture editing and is a fraction of the cost of the full product (about $90 USD)

[Djordje]

Bob wrote:
I installed a roof with the surface material Roof standing seam 16". This look fine but I wanted a different color, so I went to the material menu and made a copy of the Roof standing seam 16", remamed it and change the color to what I wanted. I then edited the roof appling the new material. When I looked at it in 3d it's the same grey color of the original. What did I do wrong.

Check which material is applied. Edit that material, or define a new one.

The color will show in 3D views, if the textures are off. If the textures are on, you will see the texture applied to the material.

So, when editing the material, you should check both color and the applied texture.

Any decent, even free, image editor will let you change the color of the texture.